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This is a poem about
the McCarthy hysteria.

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It's called "On When McCarthy
Was a Wolf Among a Nation

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of Queer-Queers."

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At 30 when the faiths give out
and all the pleasures of light

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and air go gray along
with love, well I

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began to play the game,
assumption of faiths,

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and took up spiritual hobbies.

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God, sport, and country were
not enough for one American.

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So I became a joiner
lapsing from the faith.

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May whiskey, money,
and analysis survive me

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through committee days.

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And may the night yield
sex, in whose release

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whole moments passed.

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As for the rest, left-left
politics was out of law.

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So I read books and
bit my thumbnails

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to the quick, and
false despair--

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I'm still here.

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